Vehicle seat construction.



Patented Oct. 26, 1915.

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APPLICATION FILEDYAUG-3. 19M.

J. E. LUSE.

VEHICLE SE-AT CONSTRUCTION. 7 APPLICATION FILED me a. 1914.

Patented 00b. 26, 1915.

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. WITNESSES.

FIT S JONATHAN E. LUSE, 0F CISCO, TEXAS.

VEHICLE SEAT CONSTRUCTION.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 26, 1915.

Application filed August 3, 1914. Serial No. 854,617.

T 0 all whom, it may ,vncern:

Be it known that I, JONATHAN E. LUSE, a

citizen of the United States, residing at to provide a constructionwhereby a two seated vehicle (and particularly an automobile) may bearranged to furnish sleeping accommodations by swinging the back of thefront seat into a horizontal plane flush with the two seats. j

A still further object of the invention is to providev a device of thecharacter described that will be strong, durable, efiicient and simpleand comparatively inexpensive to produce, also one in which the severalparts will not be likely to get out of working order.

With the above and other objects in view,

the invention has relation to certain-novel features of construction andoperation, an-

example of which is described in the following specification andillustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein:

mobile body showing my improved construction whereby the car may. beused for sleeping, the parts however not being shown adjusted for suchuse. Fig. 2 is a similar view in which the car bodylis shown with theseats arranged to furnish sleeping accommodations. Fig. 3 is alongitudinal vertical sectional view of the seats adjusted asillustrated in F igI 2. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view showin theconstruction employed to hold the bac of the front seat adjusted atvarious angles. Fig. 5 is a horizontal sectional detail showing an edgeportion of the adjustable back of the front seat. Fig. 6 is a detailperspective view of a swivel latch several of which are employcdin'myconstruction. Fig. 'Zis a detailcrosssection on az-m of Fig. 3. Fig. '8is a perspective view showing the front seat with its back adjusted atan angle, by means of my improvement. Fig. 9 is'a detail rear view ofcertain fastening devices. which are mounted u on the rear face of theadjustable back 0 the front seat. Fig. 10 is a detail sectional view ofthe same, the section being taken upon the line 1-11] of 9.

Figure l is a perspective view of an auto- Referring. now moreparticularly to the drawings, wherein like reference charactersdesignate similar parts in all the figures, the numeral l denotes theadjustable back of the front seat of a touring car, said back beingpivoted at each side adjacent to its lower end as indicatedat 2, so thatit may swing to the horizontal position in which it is shown adjusted inFigs. '2 and To each lateral edge of the member 1, there is securedrigidly a metal sheathingB, the

pivot pins 2 being'respectively carried by the members The pivot pinsrespectively engage in suitable apertures providedat the lowerextremities of metal strips i, one of which is. secured to the verticaledge face of each side of the front seat. Normally the back 1 occupiesthe vertical position illustrated in Fig." 1, in which position itoccupies theusual relation to the sides and cushions of the front seat.When it is desired to arrange the automobile so that it may furnishsleeping accommodations, the member 1 is swung rearwardly to ahorizontal position (see Figs. 2 and 3) in which position it issupported by the forward endsof two slide bars 5 which extend intokeepers 6 secured to the rear seat, said bars 5 be- :The spaceintervening between the mem-:

ber l in itshorizontal position and the rear seat 7? is filled by anelongated supporting cushion 9, the ends of which rest upon the bars 5.With the front seat there is also correlated a pair of slide bars 5which normally are held in the keeper 6. To complete the arrangerne nwhereby sleeping accommodations are provided, a cushion 10 similar tothe cushion 9 is mounted flush with the front seat with its extremitiesrespectively supported by bars 5, said bars being formed withup-turncdfrontends 11 which, when the bars 5 are properly adjusted willless the cushion 10 rearwardly against the put seat. In order to'holdeach bar 5'adji1sted either when recessed in the.

"correlated kee er -6 or when projecting therefrom, a 't umb screw 11 ismounted in each keeper and is adapted to be screwed up tight against thecorrelated bars 5.

adapted to swing through an arc of substantially ninety degrees, in onelimiting position being contiguous with the rear face of'the member 1 asis shown in Fig. 1, and in the other limiting position beingextendedrearwardly as is shown in Fig. 2. An

angular strip of metal-13 is secured to the rear face of each frame 12adjacent to the top thereof, a channel being formed by said strip andframes 12in conjunction. Three parallel metal strips 14 of shorterlength.

are secured in a vertical spaced relation to the vertical portion ofeach frame 12. When the member 1 is in its normalvertical position, andthe frames 12 are swung against the back of. said member, as shown inFig. 1,a pair of members 15 of a rocker arm type are swung into thechannels formed by two of the strips 14 and the frames 12 are thuslocked against longitudinal displacement so that they hold the member 1vertical.

If it be desired to adjust themember 1 at an inclination as is shown inFig. 8, the frames 12 are swung to their arallel positions and themember 1 is ad usted at the desired angle between said frames. Thefastening device illustrated in Fig. 6 is then used to establish aconnection between the member 1 and the frames 12 to hold the, forme'rin its adjusted position. This locking member comprises a pin 18 fromthe sides of which-arms 19 and 20 project-in the same flopies of thispatent may be obtained for direction, the arm 19 being considerablyshorter than the arm 20. In the horizontal upper portion of each frame12 and in the vertical portion thereof, there is formed a plurality ofoval apertures proportioned to give passage to that end of the pin 18which is carried by the arm 19. A similar set of equally spacedapertures 17 are formed in each member 3- When one of the devices shownin Fig. 6 is passed through one of the apertures 16 of each member 12and through one of the apertures 17 of the correlated member 8 and isthen subjected to a rotation such as to bring the arms 19 and 20 to adownwardly projecting position, the member 1 will be fixed in itsinclined'position.

The invention is presented as including [all such modifications andchanges as properly come within the scope of the following claim. 1

What I claim is: j a

- In a vehicle seat construction comprising a front and rear seat eachhaving a back,

the back of the front seat being pivoted at the bottom to swing backwardtoward the rear seat, two U-shaped frames hinged to the-sides of thefront seat to swing at right angles away from said seat back said framesprovided with means cooperating with the edges of the seat back tosustain said back in varying angles of adjustment and means carried bythe frames cooperating with latches on the back of the seat and adaptedto lock the back in normal vertical position.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JONATHAN E. LUSE.

Witnesses:

M. L. LUsE, M. S. STAMPS.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington,D. 0."

